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Prince Fielder, in all his tattooed glory, in ESPN the Magazine's Body Issue.
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If it's the middle of summer, it must be time for ESPN The Magazine's annual Body Issue, a celebration of athletes' bodies and the vast potential of the human form. This year, like it or not, the magazine includes the Texas Rangers Prince Fielder.

In fact, the ample Prince is one of the issue's cover stars. (No Houston athletes got naked this year — How did part-time male model Chandler Parsons not make the cut?)

Fielder, who's out for the season after having surgery for a herniated disk, appears naked save for a batting glove and a bat, showing off his heavily tattooed body and ample gut. "You don't have to look like an Under Armour mannequin to be an athlete," Fielder quips in the interview.

Fielder is one of more than 20 athletes from multiple sports to appear in the 2014 edition, including superstars such as Venus Williams, Michael Phelps and Larry Fitzgerald.

This is the sixth Body Issue ESPN has put out. If you want to see all of the athletes in this year's issue — and of course you do — head on over to ESPN.com/bodyissue.